Java runtime final EOL archives

[TuMaGoNx]

Following the release of final EOL java 7 (u352) today by Zulu, I've archived several Java runtime EOL (from Sun/Oracle/IBM/Zulu) from 1.3 to 1.7 here https://archive.org/details/jreplus
In case someone interested in making all in one installer for windows xp... I think there is a specific post regarding XP Java 1,8 here as well here.
One of way to switch version via default system java.exe is using argument:

 -version:[fullversion]

which will resolve jre through registry to wanted version. So one could make java 8 default but via context menu one could run a jar using different jre or something like that.

[cmccaff1]

Thank you very much for your archival efforts!
Admittedly, I don't use or install Java all that often, but it does have its uses, so it is wonderful to have multiple EOL versions available in one convenient collection.
I'm genuinely surprised Java 7 was supported for that long...from what I recall, the last (latest?) known Java 8 release doesn't even work/function in XP properly (I believe 8u152 is the final version of Java 8 that installs properly and works as it should in XP, while others install but fail to work).

[TuMaGoNx]

Agreed, not many needed those, I only recalled a Phone WML browser (simulator) that specifically need Java 1.3/1.2.

Java 8 situation is messy and hairy.
I just check oracle site again, their last publicly available java 1.4 is 1.4.2u34 not u32 as I uploaded. In fact they are downloadable here https://download.oracle.com/otn/java/j2sdkfb/1.4.2_34-b05/j2sdkfb-1_4_2_34-windows-i586-p.exe after baiting it.

[DosFreak]

I'm not near my file server right now but I do remember testing BuildGDX w/kernelex on 98SE and ME Java 8 U231 and Azul Java 8.0.292

IIRC, you need to install 8 U152 and then extract the Java 8 U231 files to the java directory for working java with 2000 BWC and XP.

I'd be suprised if that version of Azul Java didn't work on XP since it works with kernelex

https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=989192#p989192

https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=907228#p907228

[TuMaGoNx]

I have added "proper" Java 8 for XP, and update jdk 1.4 with the slightly newer version.

EDIT:

to test if javafx working properly you could download JavaFX scene Builder 8.5.0 here https://gluonhq.com/products/scene-builder/thanks/?dl=/download/scene-builder-jar/

or if you installed jdk: you could test it with BlueJ 4.1.4

Edited July 21, 2022 by TuMaGoNx

[Dave-H]

On 7/20/2022 at 4:42 PM, cmccaff1 said:

Thank you very much for your archival efforts!
Admittedly, I don't use or install Java all that often, but it does have its uses, so it is wonderful to have multiple EOL versions available in one convenient collection.
I'm genuinely surprised Java 7 was supported for that long...from what I recall, the last (latest?) known Java 8 release doesn't even work/function in XP properly (I believe 8u152 is the final version of Java 8 that installs properly and works as it should in XP, while others install but fail to work).

The other way around actually, they work but won't install as the installer became XP incompatible.
8u152 is the last with a working installer as you say, but versions up to 8u241 do work on XP if you do a rather tedious manual install process.
8u251 contains one XP incompatible file (sunmscapi.dll) which has to be replaced with the version from 8u241, but otherwise works.
After 8u251 the file incompatibilities got so much worse it wasn't worth the trouble of trying to get it to work anymore!